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I’ve been down this road before, through the sometimes grueling task of doing my 12-step work in the safety of a Step Study small group setting. It’s a long process of committed weekly meetings for nine months or more. I…

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. There is lots of talk in recovery about keeping our inventories balanced. It is somewhat confusing. The CR Inventory Worksheet, like the one in the image above, was…

In a few days many of us will join together with others and celebrate a time of connection and of giving thanks for our blessings. Many years ago, before I started recovery, Thanksgiving was the only day of the year…

Step 10 – We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. I was in the early stages of my recovery process and trying to parent two teenagers. One of them had found his voice,…

What kinds of feelings or images come to mind when you hear the word ‘confess’? Do you feel shame, condemnation, or embarrassment? Do you think of horrible acts confessed to in a court of law? Or maybe you picture someone…

I tend to look at life events as metaphors or symbols. Usually the level of my emotional responses in life has less to do with actual events than they have to do with earlier, more significant events. Here’s one recent…

Official Monday night CR meetings are temporarily suspended and will resume January 2018. All are welcome to attend a weekly ‘Healing is a Choice’ group on Monday nights at 7PM, 10/2-12/18/2017, at the same location.

Check the national CR meeting locator for other local programs. (http://locator.crgroups.info/)